A. Americans were facing problems and could not find work.
The song describes how people were starving due to extreme poverty and were suffering due to loss of work.
his youngest sons education
The Democratic Party is one of the two biggest, most powerful and influential parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Although the Democratic Party derives its heritage from the previously formed Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and it is considered to be the oldest active political party in the world, it was the ideas proposed by Andrew Jackson and his following faction within the Democratic-Republican Party that formed the current Democratic Party.
President Roosevelt and President Hoover utilized two different approaches to the Great Depression. Hoover utilized an individual and private approach to addressing the slide and decline in markets. Roosevelt used governmental approach, which promoted the massive infusion of governmental resources into the economy. This occurred through the creation of a number of federal agencies that were designed to get people back to work. Keynesian economics promoted the notion of "priming the pump", which meant massive infusions of cash into the economy. This approach generated opportunities, encouraged spending and confidence in the US economy.